Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

The line frames meditation as an inward form of speech: not merely silent thinking, but the soul’s own “tongue” and the spirit’s native “language.” In this view, meditation is the medium through which the deepest self articulates itself—especially in relation to God—when ordinary words are inadequate or distracting. The metaphor also implies that spiritual life has its own grammar and vocabulary, learned through practice rather than argument. Read this way, the quote elevates meditation from a technique for calm to a mode of communion and self-knowledge: the spirit becomes intelligible to itself (and, theologically, to God) through sustained inward attention.